happy new year, as we count down to the fiscal cliff here on "morning joe." with us now from the new york stock exchange, we have cnbc's mary thompson. mary, it's good to have you on this morning. first of all, how's wall street? i mean, we're preparing for whatever the reaction might be to whatever the pitiful little plan that might happen today is. >> you know, right now what we're setting up for is probably a lower open here on wall street. if you look at how the markets reacted over the last five sessions, they've had a five-session losing streak, so it looks like we could be on track for a sixth. what this reflects is the growing expectations, obviously, that a grand bargain on the fiscal cliff won't be reached. now, there still remains some hope here on wall street that maybe a band-aid measure will be reached by day's end. nevertheless, a number of traders told me, they say you know, even if we go over the cliff, they'll probably do a short-term fix at least in the early days of 2013. the problem is is that they don't expect the uncertainty that oversh